Peter B. Kaufman
President and Executive Producer, Intelligent Television

Peter B. Kaufman is president and executive producer of Intelligent Television, where he directs all aspects of the company’s media productions and research work. Mr. Kaufman serves as an expert advisor on access issues to the Library of Congress’s Division of Motion Pictures, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound and co-chair of the JISC Film & Sound Think Tank. He previously served as president and publisher of TV Books, a book publishing company he founded and sold to Lorne Michaels’s firm Broadway Video, and director of strategic initiatives at Innodata Isogen, and he recently completed a one-year appointment as associate director of Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. His current work involves building new forms of nonfiction video production and creating new business models for networking cultural and educational institutions (including publishers!).

Educated at Cornell and Columbia Universities, Mr. Kaufman has written about culture and history for the London Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Russian History, Scholarly Publishing, Slavic Review, and various other books and publications.